Seeking to placate longtime rival China, India has subtly shifted its stand on Tibet in a way to clearly recognize the Chinese annexation of "the roof of the world," delighting Beijing but raising questions about New Delhi's diplomatic game-plan and spurring concern among Tibetan exiles.
India and China vaulted over decades of mutual suspicion and hostility through their historic joint declarations signed in Beijing recently, but may have in the process sealed the cause of Tibetan independence forever.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's visit to China has once again brought Tibet on to the centrestage of Asian politics. On the one hand, the Chinese are claiming to have succeeded in getting India to recognise
The tremendous potential for economic co-operation with China, if realised, will impact positively on the political ties between the two countries. This underplayed aspect of the Vajpayee visit may yet prove to be the catalyst
Belgian scholar Pierre Ryckmans coined the phrase the "100 percenters" to describe Beijing's international fans who support whatever China says 100 percent. Publishing under the pen name Simon Leys, Ryckmans compiled the statements of
What happened on 23rd of June in Beijing during the visit of Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee was the last thing that the communist leaders of China were prepapred for. In order to to score a point over the guests
Nothing better illustrates the perils of Brahmanical guile in diplomacy than the damaging controversy created over India’s stand on Tibet. That this controversy should have been avoided is evident from the confusion
Drinking yak-butter tea in the Himalayas is a natural high, writes James Elam. Yak's butter mixed with boiling water and salt. It sounds disgusting, but it's strange how tastes can change at 5000 metres above sea level.
